Prunus persica is a species of Prunus in Rosaceae. Its flowers are ornamental and its fruit is juicy. As a fruit, it can be eaten raw, pickled or canned, and nucleolus can also be eaten.

The flesh is white and yellow, and the most popular varieties in Asia are mostly white flesh, sweet and juicy; People in Europe, Australia and North America have always liked varieties with yellow flesh.

There are many varieties of peaches. Generally, the skin is hairy, and the skin of nectarine is smooth. The fruit of "Flat Peach" is flat and discoid; "Bi Tao" is an ornamental peach tree. There are many forms of its petals, and there are hundreds of different varieties in Beijing Botanical Garden.

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Peach is a temperate plant, which needs some light in summer, but it needs cooler temperature and a lot of water and fertilizer at night, so it is not drought-tolerant. Generally, it is grafting planting.

Cut the tree into an open palm shape, so that all parts can get enough sunshine (unlike the central leading branch of apple). Taoyuan and apple orchard are easy to distinguish on the tree shape.

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